Tag: flowers
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Day 18~ December 18th~ Guilin
One of the rewards of going into far away parts of China is meeting innocence. Innocence lives her sister simplicity with the natural people of this world. My friend who travelled with me on this trip has amazingly beautiful and extremely curly hair and at the sight of it a crowd of sweet women gathered…
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Day 15~ November 15th~ New York
I still remember riding my bike to work in Soho with wet hair and arriving with jingling frozen dreadlocks from the blistering New York City wind that blew in the maze between the tall buildings, and then suddenly the first tulips appeared and with them the slightly more mild and beautiful weather that makes the…
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Day Two Hundred Thirty One, September 10, 2011
One of the most charming things about Geneva and the neighboring villages in Switzerland is the little fountain in every village square. Beautiful stone pools with a tap of running water and a background of glorious looking flowers in shades of red and pink. They just make you stop, look, sigh and wonder at the…
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Day Two Hundred Twenty Seven, September 6, 2011
If you imagine a perfect place, a paradise that you can travel to in your mind when things become too crowded in your head, what would it look like? what would be it’s colors? what would live in it? how would it feel? For me it always has nature, a lot water and so much…
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Day One Hundred Sixty Seven, July 8, 2011
They were once tiny seeds, placed inches below the ground in darkness and they were coded with one single purpose, to reach up towards the source of life, the yellow power, the great sun. So with a tremendous effort they pushed, over and over in one singular direction till they broke through the earth and…
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Day One Hundred Sixty Four, July 5, 2011
“when it is dark enough, you can see the stars” ~ Persian proverb So simple, so true. Light a candle in the sunlight and you see nothing, light it on a dark night and it can illuminate you way. On a very grey, hot, humid day in Shanghai, I was walking the streets as usual…
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Day One Hundred Twenty Eight, May 30, 2011
In America, this day was dedicated to remembering and honoring all that have sacrificed their lives and died in the war serving their country. Lives have been lost on this planet ever since the very first battle, the first conquest, the first struggle for control. And what a pity. How amazing it would be if…
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Day Eighty Two, April 14, 2011
Do you believe in fairies? Do you leave them cookies and milk? Do you build gardens, rings and circles for them? Do you swear that you saw them? Do you blame your naughty deeds on them? Does innocence live in your heart? Does wonder? Does magic? Little girls have all that magic!